Spring hook



June 5, 192's. 1,672,710

E. R. CHITTENDEN SPRING HOOK Filed Nov; 30, 1927 Patented June 5, 192 8.

UNITED STATES EASON ROBERTS CHITTENDEN,'OF SURBITON, ENGLAND.

SPRING HOOK.

Application filed November 30, 1927, Serial No. 236,697, and in Great Britain December 8, 1926.

will now bemade to the constructional em-' bodiment' illustrated on the accompanying drawing, on which Fig. 1 is a side elevation;

Fig. 2 a rear elevation; and

Fig. 3 a side elevation with one of the members of the tongue or looking member removed.

The shank member, which is a casting, forging or stamping, comprises a hook portion 11 and a body member 12. The body member 12 has two holes 13, 14 there through. The one hole 13 is of approxi mately triangular shape with one angle widened out, as .at 15, for a purpose here after mentioned. The other hole 14 is circular and in this hole the swivel or chain is attached. The tongue or looking member comprises two members 16 of similar shape. Each member 16 has on one edge a lug or projection 17 and on' the other edge a lug or projection 18. The lugs or projections 17, 18 extend at right angles to the members 16 and in opposite directions. The members 16 are placed on opposite sides of the shank memberand are pivotally mounted on a common pivot 19. The members 16 are also connected together by rivets 20, 21. the rivet 20 passing through the hole 13 and the rivet 21 through a recess 22 in the shank member when the tongue or looking member is in the position shown in Fig. 3. 23 is a spring of U-shape which is placed in the.

hole 13' so that one arm bears on a wall of the hole and the other on the rivet 21. The angle portion of the spring 23 is contained in the portion. 15 of the hole 13. When two members 16 are mounted in position the lugs or pro ect1ons 17 constitute finger grips, and

the lugs or projections 18 contact, with one 1 another and when the members 16 are in the position in which the hook 11 is' closed form a continuation of the outside edge of the the connecting member when the tongue or looking member s in position act-ingas do the lugsor projections 18.

In some cases the lugs or projections 17 I may be omitted.

' What I claim is I A spring hook comprising, 111 combmaplaced on opposite sides of the body memher and mounted on a common pivot, a laterally extending lug on an edge of each component member, said lugs extending towards each other, and a U-shaped spring containedwithin the hole in the body 'mem- EAsoN ROBERTS CHITTENDEN." 

